Hand Hewing Postponed

Bad New Bears: Hand Hewing will not be happening this month.  

We'll keep you posted, and keep your eyes open for September's offerings: Hand Drawn Plans: Thinking with Lines; Intro to SketchUp: Easy as it Potent, and a SketchUp Full Day: Like a Pro.

Introduction to Sharpening

 This Tuesday Measure Twice offered it's second Autumn Semester.  Participants brought over-worked kitchen knives and some chisels that might have been at the bottom of the Atlantic for a over a century. Using nothing more than an eighty-nine-cent piece of 800 grit sand paper, a smooth plate of glass, and care,  they brought the life back to the only hand tool most everyone uses every day.  

It's been said there are two scenarios in which any tool - chisel, paint brush, stapler - is dangerous.  The first is when a tool is used in a way other than it's intended use (the worst hammer accidents are often juggled).  

The second is when a tool is dull.  Likely everyone you know has accidentally cut themselves while using a knife.  The worst stories involve applying more force than they should to pass the blade through their work, only to have the force let-loose suddenly and track a path unintended and horrifying.

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

Intro to Wood Shop Tools

90% of live is just showing up.  Assuming you can get that far, the remaining 10% is what defines your life.  Are you mostly happy with where you've ended up, or has the Agency of You brought into being what you want? Are you satisfied with your order, or did you make your dinner?

Last Tuesday handful of engaged citizens - and one Canadian - walked into a wood shop a 70/30 mixture of interest and intimidation and left with functional knowledge of 13 hand and power tools.  

From the quite mind-space of fractions on a tape measure to the domineering and deafening 5,000 revolutions per minute of a chop-saw, the group safely tried their hand at tool usage under the countenance of a more experienced wood worker.

The transfere of knowledge seeks to protect those untried from error and harm.  Those who receive training have the benefit of a better view of the world, as it is said, on the shoulders of giants.